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Offices of Aum successor Adelph raided over recruiting practices
Police officers stand guard during a search of a facility.KYODOJapan timesNovember 13, 2017SAPPORO – Police on Monday searched five offices and facilities of the main successor group to the Aum...
View ArticleInvolving children in sects should result in revocation of parental rights –...
RAPSINovember 14, 2017MOSCOW, November 14 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court has ruled that parental rights should be revoked if parents make their children members of sects prohibited in Russia, the court’s...
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Jehovah's Witness knew she could die when she refused blood transfusions:...
Éloïse DupuisDupuis told doctors she did not want a transfusion, even as her condition deteriorated after she gave birth by caesarean sectionGraeme HamiltonNational PostNovember 14, 2017MONTREAL — The...
View ArticleClinical Meditation
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge LankawebNovember 24th, 2017Clinical Meditation is a new form of therapy that can be used to treat a large number of physical / psychological / psychiatric ailments. For centuries...
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The Dangerous Myths About Sufi Muslims
Detractors and admirers alike embrace the same misunderstandings.H.A. HELLYERThe AtlanticNovember 27, 2017The attack on Al Rawdah mosque in the Sinai last Friday, during which Islamists claimed at...
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Cult leader Simon Kadwell inquest hears police failed to investigate leads...
Gian De PoloniABC OnlineDecember 6, 2017A coronial inquest into the baffling disappearance of a cult leader and his family has been told police failed to fully investigate all of the evidence and...
View ArticleThis is Your Brain on God | Michael Ferguson | TEDxSaltLakeCity
Can science give us insights into age-old questions about religion? In this talk, Dr. Michael Ferguson describes the study he and his team conducted on believing Mormons when they reported to "feel the...
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Relatives, associates want remains of cult leader Charles Manson
Don ThompsonCTV NEWSDecember 6, 2017 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The body of murder mastermind Charles Manson was barely cold when competing bids began for his remains and belongings among relatives and...
View ArticleDeputies raid house of polygamist sect in Southern Utah, find 2 boys, but 2...
Spring City, Utah police arrested John Coltharp for investigation of kidnapping his childrenKIRK MITCHELLThe Denver PostDecember 4, 2017An Amber Alert has been issued for two sisters believed to be...
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Girls are found after Amber Alert issued in Utah; their father, a member of a...
Nate CarlisleAubrey WieberSalt Lake TribuneDecember 4, 2016Police have found two young girls allegedly kidnapped by their father, who court records say is a “doomsday prepper” belonging to a new...
View ArticleRussian court turns properties of banned Jehovah’s Witnesses over to government
TassDecember 08, 2017According to the court findings, the Jehovah’s Witnesses administrative center in Russia transferred an estate on the shore of the Gulf of Finland to the Society as a donation in...
View ArticleSelf-Help Group Lured Man Into Sexual Cult, Lawsuit Claims
KELLY WEILLThe Daily Beast December 13, 2017So many people have Googled “Gratitude Training cult” that the self-help seminar company launched the webpage “GratitudeTraining.com/cult” to combat the...
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Ex-Polygamous Sect Leader Gets Nearly 5 Years in Fraud Case
Lyle JeffsA former polygamous sect leader has been sentenced to nearly five years for his role in a carrying out an elaborate food stamp fraud scheme and for escaping home confinement while awaiting...
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'Nobody saved us': Man describes childhood in abusive 'cult'
Mitch Weiss And Holbrook MohrNational PostThe Associated PressDecember 13, 2017SPINDALE, N.C. — Jamey Anderson vividly recalls being a skinny kid trembling on the floor of a dank, windowless storage...
View ArticleFundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Fast Facts
CNN Library December 14, 2017(CNN) -- Here is a look at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a religious sect that broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of...
View ArticleFederal Officials Reportedly Investigating Group Where Women Were Branded
New York TimesBy BARRY MEIER and PAULINA VILLEGASDEC. 21, 2017 The Justice Department has started an investigation into a self-described self-help group in which women were branded with a symbol...
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Russia: Property Sell-Offs, Alternative Service Denials Follow Jehovah's...
Victoria ArnoldEurasia ReviewF18NewsDecember 29, 2017 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia continue to feel the impact of their liquidation and the nationwide ban on their exercise of freedom of religion or...
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Treated 'worse than animals': thousands of Indian women feared trapped in...
Nearly 250 women and 48 girls so far found confined behind gates in properties belonging to the Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya religious organisationMichael Safi in DelhiThe GuardianDecember 29,...
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Religion is no excuse for anti-vax nonsense
Peter KurtiThe Daily TelegraphDecembef 28, 2017ATTEMPTS by anti-vax campaigners to invoke religion as a way of dodging vaccinations for their children is an excellent example of the limits the state...
View ArticleIn Brooklyn, a Hare Krishna Reckoning
KAYA LATERMANNew York TimesDecember 22, 2017Weekdays at Govinda’s Vegetarian Lunch, a cafeteria in the basement of Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir, the Hare Krishna temple located in the rapidly...
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